The first man made object to enter the stratosphere was a shell from a
German Paris gun. A massive artillery weapon designed to be able to hit
the city of paris from up to 80 miles away. It could fire so high that
the Earths rotation had to be taken in account so the cannon could hit
its target. –
One of the original suggestions as a name for Twitter was ‘Friendstalker’, but it was dismissed as too creepy. Other options included ‘Vibrate’ and ‘Jitter’.
– WTF fun facts
President James A. Garfield was both mulitlingual and ambidextrous, and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand, simultaneously.
One of the original inventors of the frisbee and frisbee golf, Edward Headrick, was cremated and his ashes were made into tribute frisbees.